Flower spikelets 1-flowered, glumes (scales at base of floret/flower) narrow, 1-veined, nearly equal and shorter than lemma (outer scale/bract of the floret), veins of lemma inconspicuous, back rounded, sometimes with a short awn from the back; inner scale of the floret (palea) small and thinly membranous or missing; when ripe, the floret breaks off above the glumes leaving them behind; Inflorescence branched, spreading or contracted.